George Karl has 1131 wins as a NBA head coach and a career winning percentage of 59.9, and it isn't all that surprising that ESPN Insider Amin Elhassan ranked the 63-year-old as the top free agent coach available earlier this week.

Karl, an ESPN analyst this season, has made it clear that he'd like to return to coaching, but Thursday's news of Flip Saunders taking the Minnesota job could have been Karl's last chance at a head coaching job in the NBA for next season.